Findings from a survey of more than 1,600 primary and secondary teachers, commissioned by the trust, show that there is a low awareness in schools of the best ways to improve children’s attainment, with teachers relying on ‘trial and error approaches’, rather than proven interventions.
The pupil premium is worth £600 a year to schools for every child eligible for Free School Meals.
The report by the National Foundation for Educational Research found that less than 3 per cent of teachers were able to identify the best classroom approaches as priorities for spending the pupil premium.
The trust has developed a toolkit to provide guidance for teachers on the best ways to use the money, based on analysing thousands of studies, singling out approaches such as how to give effective feedback to pupils and enabling pupils to teach their peers.
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